Topic
Zip bomb
About: Zip bomb is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6 citations. The topic is also known as: zip of death & archive bomb.
Papers
Proceedings Article•
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1 Jan 2019
TL;DR: This work shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb that achieves a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container, and is compatible with most zip parsers.
Abstract: We show how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb that achieves a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container. “Non-recursive” means that it does not rely on a decompressor’s recursively unpacking zip files nested within zip files: it expands fully after a single round of decompression. The output size increases quadratically in the input size, reaching a compression ratio of over 28 million (10 MB→ 281 TB) at the limits of the zip format. Even greater expansion is possible using 64-bit extensions. The construction uses only the most common compression algorithm, DEFLATE, and is compatible with most zip parsers.
10 citations
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Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 |